So, not only did the go programming language overshadow the other go programming language, their gophers are also overshadowing the other gophers? This is a bit annoying.

Go had over 300 meanings in the OED already.

Most people in the community will happily refer to it as 'golang' when talking about the language, and in that context, it is obvious what a gopher is.

If you think this is annoying, well, there are a lot of things you can be annoyed about: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/42480/words-with...

In this scenario, we should stop using 'run' to describe program execution and avoid the use of the word 'set' in computer science. Think that's likely to happen?

Sure, that’s why society has no trademark laws and all names are reused all the time, and we have hundreds of companies all called Apple that make products called iPhones?

Society has realized that having unique names is required to find things and avoid confusion.

Words can mean more than one thing. Are you new to the world?

What is "the other go programming language"?

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go!_(programming_language)

Apple also did it with Swift https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swift_(parallel_scripting_la...